Congratulations! Love to see apps like this on #ATProto succeed! A new creative era dawns!! ❤️🥳

Something interesting to ponder: the way we talk about Carnegie and Rockefeller now is the way people in the future will talk about Bezos and Musk. The magnitude that Carnegie and Rockefeller shaped America is how Bezos and Musk are shaping America now. We are literally witnessing history.

S and I love visiting the Pendleton Art Center here in downtown Cincy. Over two hundred artists are housed in its eight floors. PAC has been going since 1990. If you're ever in Cincy, make sure to check out their "Final Friday" events the last Friday of each month! Support local artists!!

github.com/bluesky-soci... One reason I love #buildinpublic is you can see masters at work and discussing all the nitty gritty. This is one massive reason I love the open internet. 👏

substack.com/@robertlin/n... #61.11 | Gen Z turns to PowerPoint to facilitate courtship "Digital is the only medium we know how to communicate in," said one Zoomer. "Unless we're talking through screens, human interaction is impossible for us."

Set up my dfos today ❤️ The future is creative multiplayer No more creating as a lonelyboi A new creative era dawns Ty, @metalabel.bsky.social for leading us into the light!! 🌅

Today, I gave a 30min presentation on "How AI Changed My Life" at my company! I really love doing these. Making decks forces you to crystalize your thoughts into a linear format for presentation. I highly recommend others also volunteer to give presentations! It helps you crystalize your thoughts! 💭

www.greig.cc/how-to-birth... "So for those reasons, I choose to reject the label of AI for my work and I reject the boring straight jacket and predictable chatbots of big tech. I think we’re on the brink of uncovering new kinds of consciousness."

dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/joh... The man responsible for banner ads in the internet: John Battelle—Co-founder of WIRED Magazine in 1992 Calls banner ads the "original sin" of the internet which he greenlighted for HotWired (an online mag of Wired). First banner ad ever: archive.ph/vvpxw

Hi @maggieappleton.com!👋 I met Dan M at an IndieWeb writing web meetup yesterday and he shared your wonderful maggieappleton.com/echo-narcissus cohort you guys had done back in 2021. People were interested in doing another cohort and I've volunteered to lead it! Originally I was hoping to run it all

Work on a javascript engine, they said. It'll be fun, they said.

Golden Arches theory The book puts forward a capitalist peace theory, first published as an opinion piece in The NYT in Dec 1996, called the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention: "No two countries that both have a McDonald's have ever fought a war against each other." --Thomas L. Friedman

I will honestly just randomly think of the elevator scene from Drive (2011) occasionally, entirely unprompted. The music/sound/direction/acting, just 💯 in my book. I think about this scene a lot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5uf...

world.hey.com/dhh/we-will-... My favorite monetization strategy is the "We will monetize by charging money" strategy that DHH and the team uses for their products. If you like using something, please pay for it. Your attention is valuable+precious. Monetizing everything with ads is not the answer.

#61.7 | University to abolish humanities studies as AI simultaneously destroys all STEM jobs "We are doing everything we can to ensure our graduates will have no employable skills anywhere," said Montclair State University President, Jonathan Koppell. "This is our new mission statement."

Generative AI is essentially the "Materializer Microwave" from Star Trek. The device where you just request whatever you want and then it constructs it at the molecular level, atom-by-atom. 3D printers is also similar. They're all bottom-up generation processes vs top-down processes used previously.

@samwho.dev Saw this and immediately thought of you! 🙂

Genuinely incredible work by PsyopAnime over on YouTube right now. Truly next-level AI anime quality they're putting out. Pure art. 🔥👌 youtu.be/ZuZWjjiG6lM?...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fLC... This looks SO good. 😂 Has anyone watched this yet? Wuthering Heights!!

We're getting there! AI Brad Pitt fights AI Tom Cruise: youtu.be/23qpkGQdi1g?...

"Orwell is no more free to be himself, to break convention, than a slave would be in the presence of a tyrannical master. If subordination requires a credible performance of humility and deference, so domination seems to require a credible performance of haughtiness and mastery." -- James C. Scott

From Character Limit: Twitter spent "tens of millions" on their 3-day OneTeam event in Houston in Jan2020. One night, they even rented out all of Minute Maid Park(home of the Houston Astros)for fireworks. Reading CL, it's clear that Twitter was horribly mismanaged. Costs were wildly out of control.

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it" is a famous aphorism by computer scientist Alan Kay in the 1970s, emphasizing that proactive creation shapes destiny better than passive anticipation. It encourages [ppl] to actively design, create, and act rather than merely reacting to change.

Warren Buffett dropping wisdom in his 2010 annual shareholder letter: "...the third best investment I ever made was the purchase of my home... (The two best investments were wedding rings.) For the $31,500 I paid for our house, my family and I gained 52 years of terrific memories..."

open.spotify.com/episode/6WOX... Are you a lonely artist looking for your ppl? Trying to find your squad? Other folks who also believe creativity is fundamental to the human soul? Last week, @metalabel.bsky.social released a new community! It's free to join; instructions on how in this week's ep!

Whenever I think ab LA, I think ab this great piece that @jdahl.bsky.social shared w/ me last yr (substack.com/@jdahl/note/...): www.bldgblog.com/2007/10/grea... "No one’s going to save you; no one’s looking out for you. It’s the only city I know where that’s the explicit premise of living there."

@timour.bsky.social - I think you'd like this new pod: "New Creative Era", by Josh Citarella+Yancey Strickler! Ever since I learned ab Metalabel from you, I've been following their work; am a fan! Btw, would love to see more Edge City stuff here on bsky! #atproto is a perfect fit for that vision!!

open.spotify.com/episode/0NrM... In New Zealand if you go with your parent to a bar you can buy a drink for the 14-year-old because the parent is there. In New Zealand they call this the "resilience model" to try to help kids acclimate to alcohol vs the American model where there's no acclamation.

youtu.be/G6FuWd4wNd8?... Super Bowl LX's halftime show is the best I've ever seen. Just watched it! 👏 Incredible creativity and storytelling. This is the first music I've ever heard from Bad Bunny. What a talent! I'll definitely be keeping an eye on him!! (Loved the part with the Grammy!! 💯🔥)

robertlin.substack.com/p/61-4-bezos... #61.4 | Bezos: "My master plan to save The Washington Post from AI is working beautifully" "Everyone thought AI would devastate newsrooms," said the billionaire. "Thanks to my efforts, there won't be anything left to devastate."

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams This chapter ab the secret "Facebook Feminist Fight Club" FB group that describes the internally developed #ally bot that gives men special badges on their internal FB profiles when they publicly stand up for women in meetings is absolutely hilarious to me. 😂

"When you love with the whole of your heart, there is always the possibility of being hurt. Of having your entire world burn down and left in ruin. But I ask you then, what is the alternative? To never love at all? Because that, a world where you never love with all you have, is a hell even worse."

share.google/aimode/WxkF2... What I especially love ab Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus's story is that *after* he wrecks the Aequi tribe in the Alban Hills and saves the Roman army, Cincinnatus then *returns to his farm* to chill.😎 What a legend!! Leaders like George Washington took after his example.

Some timeless wisdom from @choldgraf.com: "Don’t build castles in other people’s kingdoms" and "you should create the most value in spaces that you control, and leverage platforms that others control to direct attention and value to your own spaces." chrisholdgraf.com/blog/2024/bl...

Reading "Domination and the Arts of Resistance - Hidden Transcripts" by James C. Scott

youtu.be/gzu7zW1vp4U?... Season 1, Ep 4: "Start Line" in My Hero Academia is my favorite ep in all of anime. Both this scene and the All Might holocast scene at the end when Uraraka's trying to share her points w/ Midoriya. I've watched them ~10,000 times for ~9 years now. Still tear up every time.

robertl.in/e61_3 #61.3 | State that spent $15 billion over 17 years to lay 0 miles of high-speed rail proposes higher taxes for billionaires "Clearly, we just need more money," said Congressman Khanna in a statement. "With enough money, no amount of incompetence and ineptitude can stop us."

I've really enjoyed starting to write satire every Mon/Wed/Fri in February. It's given a great reason and vehicle to pay more attention to the news and what's going on in the world. Highly recommend everyone give fiction writing a try, even if you never sell it for money. It's good for your soul!!

#61.2 | Economists who destroyed millions of American jobs baffled why they've lost all credibility with Americans [SATIRE] "I just don't get why Americans don't trust us," said one economist. "We'd gotten free trade w/ China entirely wrong 25 years ago and it's as if everyone still remembers that"

I was writing my monthly dispatch last Saturday and reflecting on what I'd learned after reading Moby Dick so many years ago. (It was for college 20+ years ago and I honestly don't remember much.) But what I do remember is I'd taken away from Herman's novel an important life lesson about creativity:

three years ago i decided to make fitness a priority joelhooks.com/get-jacked-50/

robertlin.substack.com/p/61-1-opena... SAN FRANCISCO (The Robertlandian)—Following reporting from The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI CEO and co-founder, Sam Altman today defended his “PhD level” chatbot of “helpfully culling the human population to protect the gene pool.”

robertlin.substack.com/p/61-new-exp... Tmr, I kick off a new tiny experiment for the month of February! 🥳 I've always been a big @borowitzreport.bsky.social fan and loved Andy's satire. So every Mon/Wed/Fri, I'm going to try my own hand at satire and will be posting on Substack! Expand horizons!! 🚀

"My thinking was that only after I’d crafted my magnum opus would I then emerge from my secluded mountain cave to show my chef-d'œuvre to the adoring masses who were waiting with bated breath to receive this great gift that I was going to so generously confer upon their unenlightened souls."

adding social features to our websites will accelerate atproto adoption faster than building pure atproto apps

Since starting Jan 8 this year, I've really been enjoying writing my fiction story! Yes, it's a bit embarrassing to be posting it every day 😅 but I think I've slowly acclimated. I'm really proud of my next two entries!! 📝 robertlin.substack.com/p/59-23-why-... robertlin.substack.com/p/59-24-ligh...

Tonight marks the final stop on the Australian book tour @sydneyoperahouse.bsky.social 🌏 🙏 to everyone joining the conversation and movement to reclaim the web for everyone. See you tonight Sydney 🇦🇺 #thisisforeveryone www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Genuinely the funniest possible panel line-up of all time and it's for a real estate conference in Riyadh

Q for @leaflet.pub — I'm definitely interested in eventually switching over from Substack to #atproto (the future is open!✊) but there are still some features I'm waiting for. Specifically, the ability to schedule posts for release. Is this on the roadmap? eg. robertlin.substack.com/p/59-23-why-...

Emoji is neoliberal, not working class. We have 👮 police, 🏦 banks, 💹 stocks go up, 👔 office necktie, 🏛️ government, ⚖️ law, 🤴👸 royalty but no wages stub, no union card, no "on strike" sign, no pink slip. there's a levitating businessman emoji 🕴️ but no picket sign.